The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you've got to start with the beginning of life. You've got to make sure that parents and schools are prepared to prepare young people for success. You've got to deal with the next stage of life. You've got to make sure that people have the opportunity to work at a good job, they have access to good healthcare, and that they have the opportunity to build wealth over time.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.

When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.